gossip vs talk nonsense

gossip

noun
  • Someone who likes to talk about other people's private or personal business. 

  • A sponsor; a godfather or godmother; the godparent of a child. 

  • Idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially someone not present. 

  • A genre in contemporary media, usually focused on the personal affairs of celebrities. 

  • Idle conversation in general. 

verb
  • To talk idly. 

  • To talk about someone else's private or personal business, especially in a manner that spreads the information. 

talk nonsense

How often have the words gossip and talk nonsense occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )